Recent content by Bassistlaw

It’s been around over a decade and it works…here’s why…

I like the way these guys open a show…

The most import part of any instrument is “who’s holding (playing) it!” The price tag has nothing to do with sounding good. Here’s a photo from an upscale fly in gig I did in Las Vegas where I’m using a $130 (back then) SX brand short scale Jazz Bass copy. Same bass onstage at the Las Vegas...

Old retired luthier here. No shop anymore. Poor vision now makes it unsafe to work on customer builds. In my heyday I built over 20,000 guitars in the 1980’s @ Steinberger Sound. Then went on to fix the expensive guitars for both Guitar Center & Sam Ash. Easily a thousand repairs per year. Built...

Finished Maple or bare Rosewood or similar fretboard? Same radius end to end or compound radius? Watch as many tutorials as you can…a bare rosewood single radius neck is way easier than a finished maple compound radius fretboard.

Everything Warmoth except the painted one and the finished maple neck. 5 bodies and 4 necks. All my Warmoth parts are roasted except the lightest color body.

Oops my bad! I use this type of double truss rod with the nut welded on for my own “from scratch” builds. It works both ways!

Not all of Warmoth truss rods are “single action” only the vintage construction are. Modern construction necks have two way adjustments. You can put extreme bow into a neck if you want too.

I did the same thing with a Strat body! Roasted maple baritone neck, right hand reverse headstock so there’s no issue from the fat part of the string going into the tuner. I can use any bass strings. Off menu request for no tuner holes so I could use Hipshot ultra lites. Neck also ordered with...

Check out my post Baritone as a bass it works!

Yes it’s tuned EADG…40 60 80 100 gauges. Also I did the nut myself with a “Zero Glide” zero fret/nut combo. Three Seymour Duncan Hot Rails wired stereo. Middle PU out - bass tones. Neck & bridge out - guitar tones…all processed direct to camera with a Helix Floor. No post processing. Just...

The Squire Mini Precision Bass has a 28.6 scale like a baritone guitar so…The “Terrycaster” was born! I made this with a Warmoth body & neck. Roasted swamp ash body. Roasted maple neck. Lefty headstock so the thick part of the E string doesn’t cause trouble going into the tuning key…no need for...